One month until my due date; we just spent three night in a row at the hospital, between pre-natal classes and visit of the maternity ward...

My biggest fear about labor is not the contractions... It's the pain of pushing the baby out of me and tearing.

I am going to try and have my baby as naturally as possible, as long as it doesn't affect my baby negatively. But, if the pain of pushing becomes unmanageable, I just learned today about pudendal nerve blocks, which seems like the perfect pharmalogical pain relief for me, should I need to go there.

Has anyone had that? Did it work? Any side effects that you didn't like? Tell me everything!